WDl 750GB External Hard Drive does not show up in Win Explorer

Hi there,

I have an External Hard disk(WD Elements) P/N:WDBABV7500ABK-00
It stored some of my important projects since 2011.

Recently it tend to lose connection and before I could do a proper backup, it failed to be 'seen' even my PC seemed to be able to detect it. It still gives the standard plug-in sound each time during connection, it just doesn't show up in the Windows explorer pane.
I switched it to connect on Mac Book pro or another laptop and the result is the same.

At first I suspect the mini USB cable that came loose easily, so I tried to press hold the cable tightly at the start of connection, hoping eventually it could be seen.
It still has the initial spinning drive sound and the small beam light blinks 3 thrice at the start and then stabilized. But no files are seen on the Right pane of the Windows explorer view.

And under the 'Eject USB Device' on the right bottom of the Task Bar for us to do a proper Safe remove device, the 'WD Element 1023' wordings are there but without any Drive Letter assigned to it. I can only release it.

I learned that we can try to uninstall the driver under <USB Controller> in Device Manager and re-install the driver again to see if it shows up, but it did not.

While under the <Disk Management>, a message prompted that this WD Element hard disk was not initialized. I know I cannot initialized as it will wipe out the data inside.

Appreciate some advice on this urgently.


Thanks. - JellyM